- Lead
- 22,377
- Total
- 96,078
- vs nation
- D+24.8
New Jersey 37th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 42,057
- Total
- 104,904
- vs nation
- D+35.6
- Lead
- 39,591
- Total
- 89,094
- vs nation
- D+42.3
- Lead
- 35,238
- Total
- 81,358
- vs nation
- D+39.5
- Lead
- 36,558
- Total
- 86,744
- vs nation
- D+34.9
- Lead
- 31,368
- Total
- 82,283
- vs nation
- D+40.6
- Lead
- 34,879
- Total
- 77,654
- vs nation
- D+44.4
- Lead
- 33,251
- Total
- 76,397
- vs nation
- D+35.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+23.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 229,1242024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,741 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 29.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $109,5262024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 33.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 27.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+66.2 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+29.2 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 17, NJ · twin score 93.6
presidential history
Party record book
New Jersey 37th State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Samuel J. Tilden1876
83.1%
1,325 votes · D+66.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Winfield S. Hancock, 1880 · 79.9%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
62.7%
6,350 votes · R+29.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 59.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
72,950votes
69.5% of the vote · D+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 64,116 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
38,073votes
48.3% of the vote · D+2.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 35,859 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Grover Cleveland1892
+52.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+53.8 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +44.4 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+5.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+0.5 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · +4.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 60.0%67,704 | 40.0%45,161 | 112,865 |
| 2018 | D | 63.6%40,971 | 36.4%23,483 | 64,454 |
New Jersey 37th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 66.2 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 29.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 16.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.3 points.
A population of 229,124, a 33% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $109,526 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 17 and State Senate District 12.
The state-senate districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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New Jersey 37th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/34037/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.